HIKARI TEA wholesale

About HIKARI TEA

I grew up in Osaka and the mountains of Kumamoto, in a home where tea was never just a drink. My mother is a Urasenke tea master. Preparing matcha was an act of love in our house — a quiet invitation to slow down, to be present, to share a moment with someone you care about. Those lessons became part of me long before I understood what they were. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was glad to see matcha finding its moment. And troubled by what that moment looked like — a trend without roots, a ritual without reverence. Hikari is my answer to that. We source directly from farms we visit, in regions we know. This spring I flew to Yame, Fukuoka, to meet Chisako Mizota — the woman who grows our matcha. She started her farm at nineteen. She is almost ninety now. She is still there. As we were leaving she ran after us to press freshly harvested shincha into our hands. That gesture is what Hikari is built on. The knowledge, the care, the generosity of people who have devoted their lives to a single craft — and the belief that a cup of tea is the right way to honor it. 光 means light in Japanese. It's what we're always reaching for. Julia Misaki, FounderRead their story